Soilent petrol anyone?
But you will sell it at the same market prices!
It's good to know that old fashioned American ingenuity still exists. Great article!
A barrel of light Texas crude weighs 384 lbs (source). 4 billion barrels weighs 768 million tons. How are they going to turn 600 million tons of some stuff into 768 million tons of some other stuff? Where does the extra 168 million tons come from? And furthermore, the stuff they start with is mostly water, and the other stuff they end up with has essentially no water. Where does the water go, and how do they make up the deficit?
With Michael Moore, Jerry Nadler, and Ted Kennedy, we have enough proven reserves to supply our energy needs for decades.
For all who may be interested the Changing World Technologies web site can be found here .
Just damn.
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First production plant in Fargo.
This was in the May 2003 issue of Discover magazine
http://www.discover.com/issues/may-03/features/featoil/
(only readable by subscribers).
They had a followup you can read for a scaled up production factory
http://www.discover.com/issues/jul-04/features/anything-into-oil/
Our streets and roadways will be smelling like a Thanksgiving kitchen. Yum!
I don't want to live downwind of this plant.
After hearing today that Russia is the world's second largest exporter of oil, a light bulb lit up over my head, nearly blinding me. Thank goodness I learned a lesson from previous brain storms and wear welding goggles, even when I am asleep.
Who could contain hungry Russia if oil were made obslete? How much more terroristic could the Arabs and Islamites become if oil were rendered worthless and sand became the entree at all their meals-dessert too? How in God's name would we absorb the remainder of the population of Mexico, if oil was cheaper than dirt?
I suspect that the USA could have become energy independent, back in Carters gas crisis. I have an opinion that the USA is pretending to be too danmn stupid to solve our fuel dependency, because in reality we are in fact, too damn stupid and too poor to continue providing the life style our dollars have caused oil producing nations to become accustomed to, should we allow our adequate and able technology make those idiots only source of income , as oblsete as the dodo bird.